"How much petroleum pollution can the sea hold without being irreversibly damaged?"
We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.
However, it is important to turn the folded skinflaps to normal position as direct pressure can irreversibly damage them.
They have the potential to irreversibly damage indigenous ecosystems.
Children are irreversibly damaged by malnutrition by age 2, long before they begin primary school.
This is the condition where the pulp is irreversibly damaged.
Substantial portions of the cave have been irreversibly damaged by visitors over the years, especially since the film was released in 1996.
I have found certain critical parts of the brain irreversibly damaged by drugs of addiction.
In advanced stages of the disease, photoreceptor cells may be irreversibly damaged.
Yet many environmentalists worry that such stress on the river will reduce its flow and irreversibly damage the estuary.